On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Assaf Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Long ago there was a thread about "which perl version are you using in > production". > Up until yesterday I was content with 5.8.8 (because that's the stable > package version on CentOS 5.7). > > Now I need to use a module that requires perl 5.10. > If I'm upgrading, I might as well upgrade to 5.14.2. > > My question is: > How safe is it to install it from source on CentOS 5.7 to "/usr/local" ? > Or should I install it to a private directory (e.g. $HOME/localperl) - but > that would require messing up with the $PATH variable everywhere... > > Has anyone had experience with upgrading perl on a stable CentOS system ? > > Feedback welcomed, > -Assaf.
I assume you plan to first test your code base with the new version of perl and only then will you roll it out to a production machine, right? In any case I would not touch the system perl but I'd install it in a separate directory. Either with perlbrew or manually. regards Gabor _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
